Oh that’s such a good idea! I would definitely run the Equinox as open as possible! That would be so much fun!

You’re welcome do you have the 600 or 800?

You actually just made the rest of my day enjoyable! Lol i was thinking shit!!!! $900 bucks and i can't continue finding toonies and loonies

@@RelicDirtyhands 600

@@metalheadstacker5368 Park 2 is definitely the setting to use. If you’re not looking for deep stuff I would also recommend reducing the sensitivity down to 17. I created a full tutorial series on all the settings. Here is the playlist Minelab Equinox Tutorial kzfaq.info/sun/PLpymZHu8sv5nwrk34ID53OxszE8fjuDFC. I also wrote a book on my experiences and what I’ve learned about the machine in the past 4 years. I have a group on Facebook called Minelab Canada Metal Detecting. At the top of the page I pinned up the book. It’s free for everyone, I wrote it to help people get through the tough learning curve I had. Once I understood the machine it was an amazing experience ☺️👍 I hope all of this helps.

You’re very welcome ☺️

Thank you :) I had to get the answers to the mystery of the Canadian coins :)

Congratulations! The 600 is a great machine. Modern Canadian coins can be tricky. Park 2 works best for our coins.

Yay, I’m happy, I had to get to the bottom of the yes it can, no it can’t find clad and settle it once and for all ha ha! I always used modes 2 and never knew this is why I eventually dug clad. I was expecting something more complicated than just the switch of a mode 😂 I love my field 2 mode but if I’m in an area there is clad, I will definitely be using Park 2 😁 the test was getting really long but even field 2 doesn’t react as well to the clad as Park 2 👍

You’re very welcome!

Wow thank you so much ☺️

You’re very welcome, it surprised me there was such a difference between modes. I wasn’t expecting that 😊

You’re welcome ☺️👍

We tried field but I was unsure testing beach mode in minimum mineralized soil.. I’m waiting for Eric to take me to a salty ocean beach lol.. I accidentally used it the other day.. I had the highest solid signal that rang in at 37-38 I couldn’t even guess what it could have been. It was a brass horse bridal or bit ring lol.. usually it wouldn’t ring that high in field mode, hmmm have you tried clad with beach mode? 😊just by that ring I dug, I’ll assume things must ring in at a higher target ID..

You’re welcome, took me a few years to figure it out ha ha! There has been so many heated debates on if the Equinox could find it. I’m happy we were able to figure it out and share 😊 I recall many people setting their discrimination up to 18-19 🤪 drove me crazy 😝

@@RelicDirtyhands For sure! Did park 1 work on the steel clad with no iron disc.? and any tips for hitting the clad in beach mode?

I wanted to do the US coins as well but unfortunately they are more difficult to come by here in Canada 😊 make sure to check your more recent change, maybe look at the composition of each coin, for Canada they started introducing steel coins in 2001. 👍

I noticed that years ago and explained it was an excellent training tool to hear clad, but there is pro's and cons using a single frequency. I would rather have all the benefits of finding everything with my Nox in Multi.

That’s fair. I was just saying if it’s Canadian clad you’re looking for, 40khz will give you the best signal. Obviously we all bought the equinox for the multi frequency capabilities, and want to get the most out of the machine. I really haven’t watched many of your videos, and don’t know what you already know about finding Canadian clad. I wouldn’t normally comment on videos, but you didn’t try single frequency in this video, so I thought I would mention it in hopes it would help.

I should have mentioned using 40khz in this video but it may be a video on it's own. I did record something but I couldn't prove the cons with the test bed we made. I decided to keep them out until I can dig a deeper test garden and see how it reacts to deep silver and other conductors, more testing is needed lol. I'm happy you brought this up! I wanted to add it but like I said, the last thing I needed was people calling me on the cons of using this machine in one frequency :)

Thank you so much for sharing the information on Australian coins, I can see how Park 2 would prefer them. Since I started I preferred modes 2. For years now I’ve been trying to debunking the myth that this machine couldn’t find our new clad coins. I would find them but until this test I didn’t know why I could but others couldn’t. I saw someone doing a test proving it couldn’t find them. After doing my own test, It gave me a much better understanding why, all this time it was mode 1 vs 2 😂

Sounds like a great idea 😊👍

I tried it in Field 2 and the signals were not as good compared to Park 2, I noticed a big difference. I personally always use field 2 including at the old school. If I remember field 1 reacted similar to Park 1. This changes things when I'm detecting mix sites now.

@@RelicDirtyhands I normally use Field 2 as well, I will certainly have to run some Park 2 and Field 2 comparisons. Thanks very much!

@@LittleFluffNugget You're welcome, if you discover anything please let me know!

@@RelicDirtyhands absolutely!

Thank you!

Hello Paul, I’ve recently installed the new 3.0 update. I noticed I dug more clad on my last hunt. I need to test the new 3.0 update to see if it changed clad some what. I was surprised how some were coming in solid but really need to test this out first before confirming my theory 😊 the chart you see in the video I have on file. I’m just unsure how to send it 😊 if you send me an email through my channel I can respond. I may go out to my test garden and see if there is a difference. First I need to charge it 🤪

If you are only focused on clad and gold, 40 khz does really well. I like using multi Park 2, it makes a difference. When using Multi and going for clad, a reduced sensitivity between 15-18 seems to work better. Listen for a unique wobble tone for our clad. Good luck 😊👍

@@RelicDirtyhands exactly, I put sensitivity between 15 and 18 depending how foily the ground is 😬 I see true performance on Park2 defenetely on canadian coins, and also more deep target, very happy thank for the tutorial!

Thank you :)

Thank you! Park 2 will find the clad coins 👍

@@RelicDirtyhands Yes it was quite interesting to see. I'm sure I passed up lots of clad with the Max. Except at the beach I'll dig it all.

Hi Kep, lots to cover, coins that predate 2001 come into the 12-15 range. Clad is our steel core which reacts differently and has a range from 1-17 jumps low high low high only with Park 2 using discrimination. Now with the equinox I love all target I’d numbers. In 50 tones you will see a difference, pull tabs jump by one number or pretty solid and are not low high low high like our clad. The more you use it the more you start hearing these differences. If you’re detecting old sites you want to dig the lower tones, tombac buttons come in low, 9, flat buttons, depending on size can ring into the nickel and pull tab range but the tone pitch you hear can also be different. I won’t lie it’s extremely overwhelming to learn, but once you start catching on to the differences this machine is incredible! You have to dig more than high tones.. I found a really deep slick copper that rang in 15-17, not sure if it was on edge.. I dug fishies at 17. Now recovery speed, understand the lower you bring it, the slower you need to swing, you get more depth but less separation, if you’re in high trash you want a fast recovery to get maximum separation which is more important than depth in those circumstances. If there was a nail and coin side by side, you hit the nail first, the machine won’t recover in time to hear the coin. I often use 6, it has a good balance of depth and separation.. if I was in a ploughed field with less iron or trash lowering would get you more depth. The reason I prefer field 2, I mostly hunt older sites with less new trash, I dig less rusty bottle caps and pull tabs in field, it has lower pitch on tin and aluminum sounds wobbly I think. I have more experience with field than park. Since doing my tutorials, field 2 sounded like the mode I needed for my sites. I understood mode 2 picked up a larger range of targets, itty bitty to relics. Field one is set to reject more and I’ve always preferred to use my machine wide open. That’s why it’s my go too, it just seems better in high iron trash but I need more experience using Park to really compare. Sensitivity now, in high trash you will amplify all the falsifying, not recommended. The only time I’ve hunted in 25 was in BC where there was zero EMI, but too high for nail infested areas. I keep mine between 18-23, 20 is my default, if I get a squeaker I boost it to 23 and re swing.. The falsifying iron squeak, the way around that is, if you watch the nickel in this video, it reacts similar like a falsifying nail. The squeak high signal happens as the side of your coil hits the tip of a spike, nail or wire. This signal is hard to isolate because we are trying to get the centre of the coil to reproduce it. if we work hard enough you can reproduce it.. but then you pinpoint, its going to slightly shift over the iron instead of the tip. Once you recognize that falsifying signal you’ll stop digging them. Whesh, let me know if I left anything out 🤪 hope this helps 😊

Thanks so much for all of that! 👍 You’re so amazing with your generosity of knowledge! It will take me some time to digest but that is great! I’m out hunting right now at the Barber dime rest stop site north of me and I’m incorporating some of your tips. For this one though, I want to coin shoot old stuff so I’m sticking to 19 and above tones. Pretty sure it’s been mostly hunted as very few pennies. So far today got a 1920 wheat, 1951 George dime and a sweet toy gun that I thought was likely a pop can but there were just differences that made me dig it and glad I did! I really hope we can get out on a collab hunt this year. I really haven’t done any except the short one with Liz last year but I did get out with Scuba Sonia in Toronto in early March before the emergency lockdown. She was in town for work from the US and I was there for work as well. Any plans for Digstock? I’m going if it’s not canceled. Myself, Nancy Ambient Girl, Sonia, Jordy Dinger51, DigginDeepBeeps Joel, and DP Dirtfisher Dave have already booked a cottage on Lk Champlain for the weekend. Take care and thanks so much again!

We made an announcement we were going to digstock but I’m unsure if this will be gone by October 😢

You’re so welcome! Such interesting results, I’m so happy I did this test, now we know why some find clad and others don’t 👍😊

@@RelicDirtyhands I'm a park 2 person now

I find our coins have a real unique wobble sound ☺️👍

Ha ha, Eric and I were just talking about that, condition in a test bed and real life situations can be really different, I would have to do many test, i noticed the positioning of the nails make a difference, like the nickel plate of clad coins, the edge of the coil will catch, the same goes with iron, it will catch the end of a iron spike, nail, wire and give you a falsing squeak. You will notice it’s a little difficult to isolate. When there is an old coin in the mix of nails, you will notice you can wiggle and get that high bleep to repeat and visually never moves. The falsification signal seems to happen when the edge of the coil gets close, micro wiggling the coil will tell you more, but it still possible to micro wiggle the falsifying iron tip, if you pinpoint, you will also notice if the false signal will want to shift over, pinpoint is taking you over the target, instead of the false signal 🤪 not easy to explain.. if you take a nail, swing the coil hitting it with the side of your coil vs the tip.. you will hear that false signal.. in high iron, slow down, reduce your sensitivity to 16-20, sensitivity too high will really amplify all the falsifying.. good luck, I hope this helps.. oh at old sites, field 2, zero discrimination, zero iron bias, a high enough recovery speed is a good way to go 👍 you may dig more but, you will learn the small differences 👍

@@RelicDirtyhands awesome thank you so much for that reply. Great advice. I'm actually heading out to detect right now. It will be a fun, but cool, day. Thanks again. I definitely know that I have been forcing a lot on the tips of nails and iron as you suggested. I just have a really hard time distinguishing the good from the bad still but I will get there.

Don’t give up, you will start to notice small differences after a while, I’ve been using it for a few years and as you pick up and recognize some signals it gets easier.. if you have any questions at all let me know and I’ll try my best to get you through the learning curve quicker 😊

I may need to do the same for the US coins, I'm so unfamiliar with the conductivity or the composition of the US coins.. It would make for an interesting test and great to learn as I do come across them here but it may not be as easy as looking in my pocket change for those coins eeee. I'll have to see what I have.

@@RelicDirtyhands Problem here is dimes, quarters, and halves were silver till 64, pennies were copper till 84. Lots of variations.

Wow, sounds like a lot of different signals to learn, do you have any steel core coins? Our 2001 and up rusts and pits after a short time in the ground.. Our coins were silver until 1968.. oh how I wish I started the hobby in the 70’s 😂

@@RelicDirtyhands No steel. Pennies after 84 are plated zinc, and come apart in the ground. Especially around salt water.

I should look into that! Thank you

Frank Barr, you can turn on auto generate captions in KZfaq. Works pretty good

It wasn’t easy and it took me a while to get used to it. I’m finally through the learning curve and it was well worth it ☺️ Especially in extreme trash and over hunted sites. Yes first we need to get the coil over something but when you’ve hunted the same site for 10 years.. it’s like it brings it back to life lol. I use the different modes, adjust recovery speed depending on trash, I play with single frequencies after scanning in Multi. Starting over with a new machine is extremely difficult but the equinox is fun once you’re fluent with it. 😁

Bienvenue :)

Robert, in Multi the 600 and 800 use the same frequencies. I can't see much of a difference. I wish I had the 600 to test out. If you have the 600 please do a ground test and let me know if Park 2 using discrimination gives you a cleaner tone. I'd really appreciate it! Laurie

Relic Dirtyhands I don’t have a 600 I use the 800 but each mode is using each of the solid frequencies weighted in a different way so if you’re using a 600 the20 and the 40 wouldn’t be included in your weight for each mode so it may be different

Debbie explained it from Minelab, in multi it's not using the solid 5, 10, 15, 20 and 40. In multi it's using a combination of frequencies. She also stated both the 600 and 800 use the same combination in Multi. It's like the secret recipe. Minelab will not share the exact frequencies they use, but the machine offers you those 5 frequencies on the 800 as single frequencies use.

Relic Dirtyhands Yes that is what I was saying multi users all of the single frequencies together 800 has 20 and 40 which is part of the multi so if you don’t have it it won’t be included if you watch the video annoys cancel when hooked up to an oscilloscope you can see how noise cancelling adjust the weight on multi and you can clearly see the 20 and 40 kHz band so if you don’t have it The weight will be different

Detecting Unknown Paul Robert do you agree or disagree that both 600 and 800 have the 20 and 40 kHz that weight the same in multi?.. weighting means putting more emphasis on a certain frequency. From mode 1 and 2 the weighting is different, I’ve seen the video you are talking about, but this test was not done on the 600 as a comparison, therefore I trust what’s been said by minelab unless I see something that proves this wrong.

Whahahaha! I’m way to honest and not to mention a really bad liar to be a salesman 😂 but I’m getting better at story telling ha ha.. 🤔 😂

Pennies always sound great except the new clad ones. Now you know how the clad comes in :) Park 2 using discrimination and you count should get higher :) Good luck!

That’s awesome lol!

Same, best way to use this machine 😊👍

I’ve been telling people about 40khz on clad for years,.. there are pros and cons using 40, including the 600 doesn’t have 40 as a single frequency option, this was to prove you can find clad in multi with the Equinox. You just need to use park 2 with discrimination and clad sounds great.

I was told the Atpro has a hard time on clad, clad being coins that date 2001 and up. So many people don’t notice they dig 2001 down. Use Park two with discrimination and dig 13,14,15.. you will dig lots of coins. I have a feeling you’re digging 19 and up. Pre 2001 coins are clear signals, gold rings, relics like flat buttons come in that range. If you’re not digging coins, you are missing the gold or relics too. I can call a piece of aluminum over silver., the machine has its own language and you can tell junk to treasure 😊